Buckskin

Jack Buckskin is the sole teacher of a once extinct language. From the northern Adelaide suburb of Salisbury, Jack's mission is to teach the Kaurna language, the language of his ancestors, to as many people as he can in his lifetime. But this is not easy. The language was driven to near extinction over a century ago. Now, Jack and fellow language speakers are sculpting a new Kaurna language and culture, and through that seeking to bring a new way of being to the youth of suburban Adelaide, in the form of a new Aboriginal identity, and with that, hope.

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Alex

Franklin & Marshall College•11 months ago

This is a great movie, subtle and attentive to the details. Some parts are a little bit slow and seem like "here we are being an arty doc", but there is not too much of that. It is a really interesting story about how one man is leading the charge to revitalizing a language where the last ...Read more

This is a great movie, subtle and attentive to the details. Some parts are a little bit slow and seem like "here we are being an arty doc", but there is not too much of that. It is a really interesting story about how one man is leading the charge to revitalizing a language where the last fluent speaker died in the 1920s.

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